The Farewell Origami
Over the past 30 years, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Dame Zaha Hadid, which unexpected demise shocked the world community a half of year ago, has become internationally renowned for her designs of sensuous, soaring buildings that push the limits of innovation and blur the line between art and architecture. One Thousand Museum is Miami’s the most prestigious new residential tower and the master’s first and last residential skyscraper in the Western hemisphere.
Museum Quality Design
Internationally acclaimed for its cutting-edge contemporary art scene, rattling nightlife, tropical beaches and pleasant moderate weather, in recent years Miami has also become home to a number of the most prestigious United States’ cultural institutions and most exciting entertainment venues. It has transformed into a truly global city and a prime location for the development of a world-class residential skyscraper that will meet the expectations of upscale clientele with sophisticated taste. Located on a coveted property overlooking Miami’s Museum Park, and boasting utterly breathtaking Biscayne Bay and Atlantic Ocean views, One Thousand Museum brings Hadid’s visionary architecture together with an unprecedented level of service and extraordinary amenities. The tower is a celebration of excellence and innovation. It is an audacious expression of architectural innovation at the center of the Miami skyline. It is a bold physical statement about the essence of Miami through the eyes of Zaha Hadid.
For an architect, who occupied a Z-dimension all her own, Zaha Hadid, seldom constructed high along that Z axis. She created many multi-level and mid-rise institutional buildings, but very few towers. But this June, was turned the first sod of One Thousand Museum, a 62-storеy, 83-unit, super-luxury condominium tower on Biscayne Boulevard.
The project is no less Zaha at this unprecedented scale. The contrast between the sensuous curves of the exoskeleton and the crystalline glazing of the façade is one of the defining characteristics of One Thousand Museum. The other defining characteristic is the integrity with which form follows function. The tower’s fluid curves reflect its internal organization. Shadows cast by the white exoskeleton on the recessed glass façade emphasize the interplay between the verticality of the tower and the horizontal lines of balconies. At the uppermost levels, where full-floor penthouses and the crown amenity space are located, a split at each corner of the tower reveals folded glass elements. In sunlight, reflections along the corner glazing give the appearance of finely cut jewels set precisely within the tower architecture.
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